News (NWSA) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)
News filings provide 13 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 6.68% for Q4 2025.
- On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 8.0% to 6.68% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 6.68%, a 8.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 6.84%, up 259.0% from a year prior.
- Return on Capital Employed hit 6.68% in Q4 2025 for News, down from 7.18% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 7.33% in Q1 2025 to a low of 1.29% in Q1 2021.
- Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 4.79% (2024), compared with a mean of 4.67%.
- Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: soared 1657bps in 2021 and later tumbled -313bps in 2023.
- News' Return on Capital Employed stood at 5.52% in 2021, then plummeted by -51bps to 2.69% in 2022, then surged by 37bps to 3.7% in 2023, then surged by 79bps to 6.6% in 2024, then grew by 1bps to 6.68% in 2025.
- The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 6.68% (Q4 2025), 7.18% (Q3 2025), and 6.87% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.